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Show Veterans of the war between the North and South close today their grand reunion at Gettysburg, the scene of the greatest battle of the Civil War. The old men are sur vivorB of the armies that opposed each other fifty years ago in that bloody struggle, but they meet as frieudsand comrades now, not as. foes, of the fiftieth anniversary of that mighty engagement. They have lived loog enough to forget past bitterness, bit-terness, and to remember only the courage and the soldierly qualities that made Gettyaburgh one of the greatest battles of the world's history. In charge of this great work of caring car-ing for the 55,000 veterans of the Blue is Major James E. Noimoyle, the '-Major Jimmy" of the Missippi Valley and Dayton floods, the man who directed the relief of the sufferers in those great deluges, and who was, as well, the controlling figure in the greatMexiean border mobilization of March, 1911, of whom it is said : "B9 can do more work with lass sleep, and always good huinoredly, than any other man that ever left West Point'' |